Red Mosquito

E.H. Ruddock wrote:That Celine skit was bonkers. I loved it

Dude, that shit was hilarious. I had no idea Grande had that in her arsenal.

Ello Sailor wrote:Love that Noel was ticked off by the Oasis bit. I thought it was pretty good. Squabbling brothers in their fifties who can only agree on cartoon characters. That's funny!

I can tell by your sarcasm that we can agree it was awful.

I can tell by ya mum's busted clunge that ya should've been swallowed, lad. Jog on.

Ello Sailor wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:That Celine skit was bonkers. I loved it

Dude, that shit was hilarious. I had no idea Grande had that in her arsenal.

she's come a long way from the cat valentine at hollywood arts high school that my daughter watched when she was younger

Had pretty low expectations going in but it was an alright episode. I know Arianna had hosted before I don’t remember her doing as well in the sketches as she did.

Her bad singing in the bridesmaid sketch was great.

Just listened to Jay Pharoah’s episode of Fly. Voice-wise, he does the best Trump, Obama and Eddie Murphy I’ve ever heard. Good episode.

Very middling, forgettable episode. I had low expectations being the fourth new one in a row and it was nothing.
Off next week then John Mulaney for the last one before the election. He’s proved to be one of the better hosts the past several years so we’ll see.

We’ve still not had time to watch the Ariana Grande episode.

Finished the Grande episode. It was fun.

We’re on the Michael Keaton now. Home Shopping Cookie had me howling. Parachute Jump was pretty good too.

Cold open was good.
Digital shorts always deliver.

Keaton should stick to movies.

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washing machine wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Why would they hire three new cast members when they’re going to trot out a ton of cameos all season?

I think Andrew Dismukes is my favorite current cast member.

Rank the SNL 50 cast (no cameos)

Excluding the noobs and Please Don’t Destroy

Andrew Dismukes
Ego Nwodim
Bowen Yang
Sarah Sherman
Mikey Day
James Austin Johnson
Kenan Thompson
Heidi Gardner
Marcelo Hernandez
Michael Che
Colin Jost
Chloe Fineman
Michael Longfellow
Devon Walker

Dismukes, Yang, Sherman, Longfellow, Day and Nwodim are the must haves, along with JAJ for his impressions.

Outside of that group they're really pushing Hernandez and Fineman this year.

Bill Burr and Charli XCX host the 9th & 16th.
MJ.gee is the musical guest and then Charli does double duty.

You knew you were going to get three extended pieces tonight: the cold political open, Mulaney’s monologue, and a Broadway style musical number. Not a big shock to see Kamala show up; seeing Pete Davidson in the Port Authority bit was a bigger surprise but apparently he & Jost have made up. John Mulaney episodes have their own feel and if you’ve enjoyed his previous five you would have liked this one.
Mulaney’s and Jason Bateman are starting to look like the same person, even though Bateman has to be at least 10 years older.

For their 50th anniversary year, they're not hitting out of the park a whole lot.

Update was solid though.

Stickman wrote:Update was solid though.

Update is consistently solid (imo)... Reba was a rare miss this time for me.
I enjoy Mulaney's specials a lot, so his monologue was good, though somewhat tamed.
That "Beppo" space ape skit was great.

Beppo was good, that's about it. I sure don't get the John Mulaney love.

i thought that the beppo monkey skit should've ended with him blowing up. that's a good example of the writers still not understanding that sometimes less is more.

Yeah, that beppo short could have been great.

"Any last words?"

"Help."

I'm wishing Jane Wickline a long and meaningful future on the SNL cast. Her energy is good.